Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood: from A.D. 46 to 1884Finch-Crisp, William
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Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood: from A.D. 46 to 1884
Finch-Crisp, William
Great Yarmouth (England) -- History
Feb. 13th. Isaac Preston, jun., Esq., elected Clerk of the Peace by the
Town Council; and on March 5th, Visiting Justices’ Clerk.
Feb. 23rd. Brigantine “Isabella Walker” collided with the steam tug
“Andrew Woodhouse,” the latter sustaining damage to the amount of £50.
Feb. 27th. General Thanksgiving Day for the recovery from sickness of
the Prince of Wales observed in Yarmouth.
Feb. £4,680 required for the restoration of Gorleston Church. (See Jan.
12th, 1872, and April 28th, 1876.)
March 1st. Mr. G. M. Burton elected Vaccination Officer.
March 2nd. Smack “Queen of the Fleet” launched from Messrs. Smith and
Son’s shipyard.
March 14th. J. Cherry, Esq., of the Norfolk Circuit, took the oaths and
handed in his formal appointment as Clerk of the Peace for Suffolk,
conferred by the Lord Lieutenant of the County (Lord Stradbroke), vacated
by the late Mr. Borton, who held the office 30 years prior to his death.
March 22nd. Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., died at Burlingham Hall, aged
82 years. This gentleman was elected M.P. for East Norfolk in Aug.,
1837; July, 1841; Aug., 1847; and July, 1852, with the late Edmund
Wodehouse, Esq., as a colleague, on the last two occasions without
opposition. In 1855, however, Mr. Wodehouse, accepting the Chiltern
Hundreds, Sir Henry J. Stracey was returned in the place of that hon.
gentleman, but at the dissolution in March, 1857, they neither of them
went to the poll. Mr. Burroughes was a Port and Haven Commissioner for
over 45 years. The Rev. Randall Burroughes, who married a sister of Lord
Suffield, succeeded to the possession of his fine landed property.
March 30th. Nathaniel Palmer, Esq., died at Coltishall. He was born at
Yarmouth in Oct., 1792. In 1827 was called to the bar by the Inner
Temple, and in 1886 appointed Judge of the Guildhall Court of Norwich and
Recorder of Great Yarmouth.
March. The loop-line between Somerleyton and St. Olave’s on the Great
Eastern Railway opened.
April 4th. Marriage of Lieut. Charles Francis Hastings Dent, commanding
H.M.S. “Orwell,” eldest son of the late Admiral Dent and Lady Selina
(daughter of the 11th Earl of Huntingdon), with Miss Jane Collins, of
Bury, was celebrated at St. Mary’s Church. (See Jan. 3rd.)
April 19th. Corner-stone of the new schools in connection with St.
James’ Mission laid.
April 24th. Simms Reeve, Esq., took the declaration at the Tolhouse Hall
on acceptance of the office of Recorder of Yarmouth.
May 2nd. The fine new lugger “Sir Roger Tichborne” launched from Messrs.
Smith’s shipyard at Runham.
May 13th. The smack “Renown,” belonging to Messrs. Smith and Son, fouled
the South Pier, and afterwards sunk with her cargo of fish in the
harbour.
May 13th. The Dutch man-of-war brig “Tornate,” used as a training ship,
and having on board 110 boys and 10 men and officers, was towed into our
harbour.
May 20th. A young shark, about six feet long, caught off Yarmouth, and
landed on the beach.
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